Korean Books of Interest

These are the Generations by Mr. and Mrs. Bae as told to the Rev Eric Foley, printed 2012

The story of how one North Korean family who lived out the Great Commission for more than fifty years in the most Christian hostile nation in human history.

 

Divided Family by Taiwon Koh, printed 1958

This book tells the true story of a vibrant Korean Christian family whose hope to see their beloved country governed by their fellow countrymen. However, not only was their country divided but also their family. Little did they know the division would have no end.

 

Not Forgotten: the true story of my imprisonment in North Korea by Kenneth Bae, printed 2016

Kenneth Bae was a Korean American missionary imprisoned in North Korea. He never wavers in his love for the North Korean people. As he faces fifteen years of hard labor, he learns to rely solely on God and finds joy in His service by reaching the most challenging group of individuals on earth, North Korean prison guards.

 

Escape from North Korea: the untold story of the Asian Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick, printed 2013

It is an informative book that explains Korean recent history and sheds light on the networking of individuals living throughout China, who secretly aide Koreans escaping North Korea. She compares this to the underground railroad that existed in the United States.

 

The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Choi Kwan and Pierre Rigoulot, printed 2001

This is the story of a family forced to live the rest of their lives in a gulag (prison camp). The story is told by the first survivor of the camp who has escaped to tell the world his family’s story.

 

Nothing to Envy by reporter Barbara Demick, printed 2009

Barbara follows the lives of six ordinary citizens of North Korea, over a fifteen year period, between the death of Kim il Sung and the rise to power of his son Kim Jung il.

 

Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden, printed 2013

Shin tells his story of being the only known person to have been born in a gulag who escaped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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